BMW Reveals 'Hyperloop' Style Superhighways For Cyclists

Certainly beats being stuck in rush hour.

Looking into the future can be fun for a number of reasons, one of which is so we can imagine a world where there are no cars, currency, and we’re all being transported around in tiny pods.

BMW’s vision of the future is perhaps a little more realistic than that and sees a world where instead of being transported in tiny pods we’re actually all driving electric bikes along huge citywide tubes suspended in the air.

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Developed by BMW’s Group Technology office in China, the Vision E3 Way is a concept that imagines cities being covered in these transparent superhighways.

Inside citizens can easily zip around from A to B using BMW’s electric scooters, or bikes.

As if to hammer the point home, the concept art rather smugly shows BMW’s utopian vision next to the crowded streets of today suggesting that rather than replacing modern roads these new cycle routes would run alongside them.

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While it might look like BMW is just solving a congestion issue by creating more congestion it’s actually a pretty realistic view of how our cities are evolving.

In China in particular more than a billion people are expected to be living in cities by 2050 and as cities grow the limited space will require some pretty intuitive thinking in order to get everyone to where they want to go.